The US Coast Guard has purchased two luxury private jets for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a total cost of more than $170 million in taxpayer money as the federal government remains shut down, imperiling food aid and other assistance for tens of millions of Americans.The decision to buy...
The article doesn’t say it was that cheap. That’s just the threshold at which Noem demands to personally sign off on expenses. So she signed off on $170,000,000 worth of private jets for herself.
Ah okay. I get it now.